Facebook and Google's search competition seen through the prism of SurveyMonkey's $444m deal.

Nine of the 10 possible IPOs this year identified by news provider CNN has corporate venturing backing.

If the InSightec deal ends up being a stellar exit for GE a few years from now, it would surely make an interesting case study for how spin-offs can successfully value for their parent corporate, while minimising risk of the parent while it sees how the technological roll out pans out.

An Irish corporate venturing foray by Nasdaq-listed Semtech Corporation, follows the semiconductor company making its largest acquisition in its 52 year history earlier this year.

The deal showcases a number of important trends in healthcare: no venture capital (VC) firms were invited to invest, how far a company can get without selling equity and that while the investor universe has globalized all roads still often lead to the US.

How to structure a corporate venturing group to meet the different requirements for investing over 30 to 50 years as well as three to 10 years.

With such sizeable funding in place, if Intarcia can carry out a successful trial it would be in a stronger position to reap the returns of what could be a blockbuster treatment worth billions of dollars per year as well as a technology potentially applicable in other areas.

Ruckus claims that nearly 60% of its revenues comes from telecommunications carriers such as Deutsche Telekom, demonstrating the strong business model of turning your financial backers into paying customers.

Question of whether senior management can invest counter-cyclically and stay the course if the investment thesis remains true even if economic conditions turn sour.